Display device



March 11, 1941. HYNDMAN 2,234,475

I DISPLAY 10 Filed Dec. 30, 1938 Patented Mar. 11, 1941 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,234,475 nrsPLAY DEVICE Meade Hyndman, St. Louis, Mo. Application December so, 1938, Serial No. 243,401

1 Claim.

This invention relates to display devices of the type that are composed of paper or other pliable material adapted to be placed upon supports such as bottles or the like for advertising and other purposes.

Objects of the invention are to provide an improved display device composed of flexible material assembled in a manner to form a conical portion adapted to enclose and seat upon the tapered portion of a support and having laterally extended wall portions capable of use as handles to facilitate manual or mechanical placement of the devices upon the supports for which they are intended with greater speed than is possible to attain in the placement of certain devices of other types; to provide a display device including said laterally extended wall portions which require a minimum amount of material and which present substantially smooth surfaces, without ofisetting overlaps, at opposite sides of the conical portion, facilitating the placement of display or printed matter thereon and presenting no substantial irregularities that will interfere with or retard the processing of the devices for display purposes; and to provide such a device within the scope of the present invention, irrespective of whether the device is made of a single section or more than a single section of material assembled in a manner to conform to the invention.

Another object of the invention is to provide an improved display device of the character mentioned made of one or more sections of pliable material, such as paper or the like, having parts thereof attached to form an intermediate conical portion adapted to enclose and seat upon a tapered support, and having oppositely arranged extensions of double thickness of the material formed by attaching one ply to another ply so that said attached plies would extend oppositely when the device is placed upon a support, and the opposite sides of the conical portion will present substantially smooth or even surfaces upon which display or advertising matter may be more easily formed.

Other objects will appear from the following description, reference being made to the annexed drawing, in which Fig. 1 is an inside plan view of a blank from which a display device may be made in accordance with this invention.

Fig. 2 is an inside plan view of a blank composed of two sections of material which may be assembled to form a display device according to this invention.

Fig. 3 is a perspective View of a completed display device mounted upon a support which, in this instance, is a conventional milk bottle.

The blank shown in Fig. 1 is composed of a single piece of pliable material, such as paper 5 or the like, and includes two portions adapted to be placed in superimposed relationship when the blank is foldedtransversely along the line I. It is preferable that, when the blank is folded transversely along the line I, the edges of the 19 end margins 2 and 3 shall be even with each other, although this is not an indispensable feature of the invention. A quantity of adhesive 4 is placed upon an intermediate portion of the blank near the fold line I and between the up- 15 wardly diverging lines 5, and a quantity of adhesive 6 is placed upon one of the terminal margins, sothat, when the blank is folded, these quantities of adhesive attach together the two plies of material with which they directly con- 20 tact. This forms a display device that is adapted to be placed upon a tapered support 1, and which is assembled to form a frusto-conical portion when the support 1 is extended between opposite sides of the device, a lateral extension composed 2 of the plies 2 and 3, and a diametrically opposite lateral extension composed of attached plies 8 and 9. The plies 8 and 9 are attached by the adhesive 4, and the plies 2 and 3 are attached by the adhesive 6. The end margins 2 and 3 30 may be defined by lines l0 and H from the portions l2 and I3 that form the opposite walls of the frusto-conical device. Preferably, the ends of the margins 2 and 3 are attached together by adhesive 14 to prevent them from separating 35 or spreading apart. In this display device, the triangular extension formed by the attached margins 2 and 3 and the triangular extension formed by the attached plies 8 and 9 have their apexes at the lower edge of the frusto-conical 40 portion, and have their outer edges separated by a space within the external diameter of the base of said frusto-conical portion. Thus, the full width of the device between the vertical edges of the triangular extensions is no greater than 45 the maximum diameter of the frusto-conical portion; so that, when the devices are placed on the tapered supports I, no parts of said devices extend beyond the outer surfaces of the parts of said supports having the greatest diameter. Therefore, these devices mounted on these supports in no way interfere with each other or with the supports themselves, and are not distorted or otherwise disarranged when the supports I are placed side by side, as would occur if the triangular extensions extended beyond the planes of the outer surfaces of said supports.

The blank shown in Fig. 2 is the same as that shown in Fig. 1, excepting that the blank of Fig. 2 is made of two pieces having a severance line I instead of the fold line I. The two pieces of the blank shown in Fig. 2 are placed one upon the other the same as the two portions of the blank in Fig. 1 are placed one upon the otherwhen the blank of Fig. 1 is folded along the line I. The remaining elements and features of the blank shown in Fig. 2 are substantially the same as the elements and features constituting the blank shown in Fig. 1, and the same reference numerals with exponents are applied thereto.

In either instance, when the device is completed, the result is a frusto-conical display portion having smooth opposite surfaces, without objectionable offsetting overlaps, which are curved when the support is extended through the device, and also having two diametrically opposite lateral extensions capable of manual or mechanical engagement in placing the device on or removing the same from its support. When desired, the surface display may be extended from the frusto-conical portion onto the surfaces of the lateral extensions. This construction eliminates the use of that amount of material required to provide overlapping attaching ends along the sides of the conical portion of the device, with a consequent saving; and also provides smooth display surfaces throughout and without the offsets formed by overlapping the ends of the blank at the sides of the conical portion which seriously interferes with artistic printing on the exposed surfaces of the conical portion.

This invention attains the objects, advantages and savings herein indicated, and others over the display device disclosed in my prior Patent No. 2,135,306, dated November 1, 1938.

The device may be varied in other particulars than those specifically mentioned, and I do not restrict myself unessentially.

I claim:

A display device of the character described composed of a strip of flexible material folded transversely intermediate of its ends and having its end marginal portions lying one against the other, and means attaching together the two plies adjacent to their fold line and the two end marginal portions thereof respectively and thereby forming a frusto-conical portion adapted to receive and seataround and against a support extended therethrough and two diametrically opposite triangular extended portions having their outer edges separated by a space within the external diameter of the base of said frusto-conical portion, presenting smooth outer display surfaces on said frusto-conical portion.

MEADE HYNDMAN. 

